Visual Studio keyboard shortcut to automatically add the needed using statement

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What is the keyboard shortcut to expand the little red line that gives you the menu where you can choose to have the necessary using statement added to the top of the file

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It s ctrl     when  for example  you try to type List you need to type  lt  at the end and press ctrl     for it to work

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Alt   Shift   F10 will show the menu associated with the smart tag

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In Visual Studio 2010 you will find the keyboard command to resolve namespaces in a command called View ShowSmartTag  Mine was also mapped to Shift   Alt   F10 which is a lot of hassle - so I usually remap that promptly   On Pete commenting on ReSharper - yes  for anyone with the budget  ReSharper makes life an absolute pleasure  The fact that it is intelligent enough to resolve dependencies outside the current references  and add them both as usings and references will not only save you countless hours  but also make you forget where all framework classes reside  -   That is how easy it makes development life     Then we have not even started on ReSharper refactorings yet   DevExpress  CodeRush offers no assistance on this regard  or nothing that is obvious to me - and DevExpress under non-expert mode is quite forthcoming in what it wants to do for you  -   Last comment - this IDE feature of resolving dependencies is so mature and refined in the Java IDE world that the bulk of the Internet samples don t even show the imports  using  any more   This said  Microsoft now finally has something to offer on this regard  but it is also clear to me that Microsoft development  for many of us  has now come full circle - the focus went from source  to visual designers right back to focus being on source again - meaning that the time you spend in a source code view   whether it is C   VB or XAML is on the up and the amount of dragging and dropping onto  forms  is on the down  With this basic assumption  it is simple to say that Microsoft should start concentrating on making the editor smarter  keyboard shortcuts easier  and code error checking and evaluation better - the days of a dumb editor leaving you to google a class to find out in which library it resides are gone  or should be in any case  for most of us

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I can highly recommend checking out the Visual Studio plugin ReSharper  It has a QuickFix feature that does the same  and a lot more    But ReSharper doesn t require the cursor to be located on the actual code that requires a new namespace  Say  you copy paste some code into the source file  and just a few clicks of Alt   Enter  and all the required usings are included   Oh  and it also makes sure that the required assembly reference is added to your project  Say for example  you create a new project containing NUnit unit tests  The first class you write  you add the  TestFixture  attribute  If you already have one project in your solution that references the NUnit DLL file  then ReSharper is able to see that the TestFixtureAttribute comes from that DLL file  so it will automatically add that assembly reference to your new project   And it also adds required namespaces for extension methods  At least the ReSharper version 5 beta does  I m pretty sure that Visual Studio s built-in resolve function doesn t do that   On the down side  it s a commercial product  so you have to pay for it  But if you work with software commercially  the gained productivity  the plug in does a lot of other cool stuff  outweighs the price tag   Yes  I m a fan

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Ctrl     shows the menu  I find this easier to type than the alternative  Alt   Shift   F10   This can be re-bound to something more familiar by going to Tools   Options   Environment   Keyboard   Visual C    View QuickActions

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Context Menu key  one one with the menu on it  next to the right Windows key   Then choose  Resolve  from the menu   That can be done by pressing  s

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